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querulous 音标拼音: [kw'ɛrələs] a. 鸣不平的,发牢骚的,易怒的 鸣不平的,发牢骚的,易怒的 querulous adj 1: habitually complaining; " a whiny child" [ synonym: { fretful}, { querulous}, { whiney}, { whiny}] Querulous \ Quer" u* lous\, a. [ L. querulus and querulosus, fr. queri to complain. Cf. { Cry}, v., { Quarrel} a brawl, { Quarrelous}.] 1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. [ Obs.] -- land. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. [ 1913 Webster] Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Complaining; bewailing; lamenting; whining; mourning; murmuring; discontented; dissatisfied. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Quer" u* lous* ly}, adv. -- { Quer" u* lous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 103 Moby Thesaurus words for " querulous": Jeremianic, annoyed, bad- tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bemoaning, bitching, blubbering, cantankerous, carping, catty, censorious, choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky, critical, criticizing, croaking, cross, crotchety, crusty, crying, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, dyspeptic, envious, faultfinding, finical, finicky, fractious, fretful, fussy, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpy, howling, huffy, hypercritical, ill- humored, ill- natured, ill- tempered, irascible, irritable, irritated, lamenting, lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, out of humor, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, piqued, plaintive, plangent, puling, quarrelsome, querulant, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic, sulky, testy, touchy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, wailing, waspish, weeping, whimpering, whining, whiny
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